Hags And Linda Flower Summary

Something that is left out a lot in the education system, is that it is okay to have a different interpretation. Students are accustomed to trying to find the “correct” interpretation of something. Christina Hags and Linda Flower in their text, found that more experienced readers used what they called rhetorical reading strategies to more efficiently come to an understanding of difficult texts. Average college students however, don’t implement this into their daily reads. At least some. The goal of Hags and Flower was to analyze the ways students come to an understanding of a text. They attempted the “ Think aloud procedure” where the students basically say as they think about what they are reading. It resulted that readers not only use the

I disagree with this statement because many English teachers implement their students to identify the purpose and audience etc. They say that those who correctly do this are experienced readers. Students are not experts, but surely many teachers intend to take us there. Hags and Flower say, rhetorical readers seem to recognize more claims and identify them sooner than those who don’t rhetorically read. I tend to see that the many times I read a text, I find more information I didn’t catch the first time. This is agreeable because this happens to many. Perhaps because if you read something over and over you catch what you didn’t catch before and you look for something different. Margaret Kantz text was a bit similar, she states that it is easier to write a paper that only use one source than many at a time. I agree with this because at times, we students, are so used to trying to find as many sources as we possibly can. But yes, if we only use one source, we focus solely on that specifically rather than all at once. If we use many, then we have to explain how each of the sources are relevant or else it’s just an irrelevant source. They suggest we use sources we like, this way we are comfortable with it and are able to write upon